Developer Norbert Klebl today unveiled plans for a net-zero energy, master-planned community between Denver and Boulder.
Touted as the country’s largest net-zero energy community, Geos Neighborhood will have 250 residences and will generate enough renewable energy to offset 100 percent of the energy needs of the entire community.
Homes in the neighborhood will start in the $200,000s and range from 860 square feet to 3,683 square feet.
The community’s features will include:
· Airtight construction of the homes.
· Heat recovery ventilators that will transfer 75 percent or more of the heat from air exiting the home to the fresh, filtered air entering the home.
· Photovoltaic solar panels on every building, accounting for 65 percent of total electrical offset.
· Checkerboard design, placing every other home on the front of the lot, while its neighbor sits to the back to maximize each home’s solar collection.
· Water conservation. Each community green is a storm water detention basin that also serves as a neighborhood park. Storm water is recycled back into the community landscape.
Infrastructure work will begin this fall.